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Shortcuts provide quick access to the items you use most often. And

because you can make as many shortcuts of a file as you want, and put them
anywhere on your PC, you can, in effect, keep an important program or
document in more than one folder. Just create a shortcut to leave on the
desktop in plain sight, or drag its icon onto the Links toolbar. In fact, every

link in the top part of your navigation pane is a shortcut.

Note

Don’t confuse the term shortcut, which refers to one of these duplicate-icon pointers, with
shortcut menu, the context-sensitive menu that appears when you right-click almost anything in
Windows. The shortcut menu has nothing to do with the shortcut icons feature; maybe that’s why
it’s sometimes called the context menu.

Among other things, shortcuts are great for getting to websites and folders

elsewhere on your network, because you’re spared having to type out their
addresses or burrow through network windows.

Creating and Deleting Shortcuts

To create a shortcut, use any of these tricks:

Right-click (or hold your finger down on) an icon. From the

shortcut menu, choose “Create shortcut.”

Right-drag an icon from its current location to the desktop.
(On a touchscreen, hold your finger on the icon momentarily

before you drag.)

When you release the mouse button or your finger, choose “Create
shortcuts here” from the menu that appears.